Good Words Which Ought To Make A Comeback

[AB Editor]

Afternoon all,

I wondered if any of you had a good word for me?

By that I mean: what words do you believe aren't currently used quite enough or have been completely abandoned by our (or anyone else's) language?

It would be good if you could tell us what the word, or phrase, means as well (although it might be fun to try and guess actually!)

[horseshoes]

I didn't type lady!

[horseshoes]

I honestly didn't know the word I typed was a swear word!

[horseshoes]

Well! I've looked up the online definition for the word and it says it's derogatory, but not that it's a swear word!

[choux]

Poor horseshoes ;)

Prodigious (huge, mammoth, inordinate, etc.)

[horseshoes]

...... so some people are allowed to say F*** but not a good old fashioned word like **** begins with b and ends in int

[horseshoes]

SandyRoe, we still say Flyman round these parts!

[Tilly2]

Perhaps the swear filter has been ratcheted upwards after this morning's GMEB thread.

[sandyRoe]

ineffable isn't seen now as much as it once was

[AB Editor]

It's always been in the swearfilter horseshoes.

[Tilly2]

How did the other words get through, Ed?

[sandyRoe]

And as the light is fading on this dark and wet evening in Belfast, Crepuscular came to mind.

[AB Editor]

Use of characters from a different alphabet Tilly. Report uses of them and we can work out how to block them going forward.

[horseshoes]

So why did the F*** get through?

[murraymints]

was not only a member who posted the word !!!

[bibblebub]

kickie-wickie

QI came up with some Shakespearean words that haven't survived and this was my favourite from those - definition given on their site http://qi.com/infocloud/shakespeare

[ferlew]

Mallyshag and emmet.
Eviscerate.

[DTCwordfan]

Mark my words, there is only one man who knows how to do that and Ed knows I believe - get your Ray gun out and 'zap'....

[DTCwordfan]

Conflagration

Abacinate

Basorexia

Dompteuse

Exsibilation - when Ed sends sibs to the bin?

Emmit - from down here

Farctate

Dorset pasty - is not a pasty.

[Peter Pedant]

Spigott or spyle - those little wooden pegs you hammered into wooden barrels of beer to get the beer to come out of the tap at the bottom

not needed I suppose since beer is now pressurised and seems to come out of the top.

[Peter Pedant]

mole - catcher - turned into a rodent operative